Sally Spencer-Thomas – 2-Day Comprehensive Suicide Risk Assessment & Intervention: Work with Clients with Compassion and Confidence
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- Faculty:
- Sally Spencer-Thomas
- Duration:
- 12 Hours 41 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Dec 18, 2019
- Self-Reflection: Time to unpack our own baggage
- Countertransference
- Our own history with suicide
- The latest data, and what to do with it
- Mental health and suicide
- Alcohol and suicide
- Opioids and suicide
- Additional forms of trauma and suicide
- Aspiring to Zero Suicide
- Why “Means Matter”
- Understanding the many forms of the suicidal mind
- Soul exhaustion
- Upstream, midstream, and downstream approaches
- Build resilience and crisis inoculation
- Earlier identification and triage
- Trauma-informed care
- Learn from the experiences of suicide attempt and loss survivors
- The many paths to suicide
- Communicate caring: Language to impart compassion and avoid stigma
- Suicide risk assessment
- SAFE-T
- IS PATH WARM
- Ideation, plan, means, intent
- Level of risk
- Standardized assessment tools to augment clinical judgment
- Obtaining collateral information
- Types of questions to uncover suicidal ideation
- What if they say “No”?
- What if they say “Yes”?
- Behavior chain analysis
- Why “No Suicide” contracts are dead
- Best practices in risk assessment
- Set up a safety agreement that is more likely to be followed
- Reduce access to lethal means (C.A.L.M.)
- The “Stop, Drop, and Roll” of suicide safety planning
- Treatment strategies built on preserving choice and dignity
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Relapse prevention plans
- When and how to hospitalize
- The PIE of life – brainstorm possibilities of growth
- Narrative psychology and the power of storytelling
- Cultivate social connection and re-engagement
- Choice and perspective
- Foster gratitude and a spirit of contentment after loss
- Measurements of post-traumatic growth
- Understand the unique nature of suicide grief
- Peer-based support: Connect clients to other survivors of loss
- Access and reclaim compassion
Sally Spencer-Thomas – 2-Day Comprehensive Suicide Risk Assessment & Intervention: Work with Clients with Compassion and Confidence
Description
The epidemic of suicide continues to wreak havoc in the lives of millions of Americans.
With suicide rates on the rise, the need is urgent for clinicians who can recognize warning signs earlier, intervene with current and proven strategies, and even inoculate clients against the chance of suicidal thoughts emerging in the future. It’s a daunting challenge that has undoubtedly left you feeling confused, overwhelmed, and even scared.
Don’t let fear push you away.
This recording will transform how you view and work with suicidal clients and give you the clinical tools you need to save lives. Over the course of the program, you will dive deeply into a comprehensive approach to suicide risk assessment and intervention. You will gain confidence and a heightened sense of compassion that are essential to understanding where clients are on their life journeys and how you can instill hope and a renewed desire to invest in lives that are worth living.
Finish this recording feeling confident and capable to work with suicidal clients and guide them out of the darkness and back into the light!
Handouts
| Manual – 2-Day Comprehensive Suicide Risk Assessment & Intervention (22.32 MB) | 119 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
OVERCOME BIAS AND FEAR
Prepare to do suicide work with compassion and confidence
HOT TOPICS IN SUICIDOLOGY
Evaluate the latest developments and their impact on assessment and intervention
COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT
Determine where to enter the prevention stream, and how to navigate successfully
RISK ASSESSMENT
Elicit key information from clients
COLLABORATIVE SAFETY AGREEMENTS AND WELLNESS PLANNING
Help clients regulate emotions and feel safe, valued and connected
MAKING MEANING
Help clients reinvest in a life worth living
SAFE AND EFFECTIVE SUICIDE GRIEF & TRAUMA RESPONSE
Implement suicide grief and trauma support
Faculty
Sally Spencer-Thomas, Psy.D., MNM Related seminars and products: 3
Sally Spencer-Thomas, Psy.D., MNM, sees suicide prevention and mental health promotion from a host of perspectives. Clinical Psychologist. Mental Health Advocate. Faculty member. Researcher. And suicide loss survivor. She was moved to work in suicide prevention after her younger brother, Carson, a Denver entrepreneur, died of suicide after a difficult battle with bipolar condition.
Dr. Spencer-Thomas has been an invited speaker at the White House on the topics of mental health and suicide prevention and has held leadership positions for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, the International Association for Suicide Prevention, the American Association for Suicidology, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
She has won multiple awards for her leadership including the 2014 Survivor of the Year from the American Association of Suicidology, the 2014 Invisible Disabilities Association Impact Honors Award, the 2012 Alumni Master Scholar from the University of Denver, the 2015 Farbarow Award from the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the 2016 Career Achievement Alumni Award from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology.
Dr. Spencer-Thomas has a Doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Denver, a Masters in non-profit management from Regis University, and a bachelor’s in psychology and studio art with a minor in economics from Bowdoin College. She has written four books on mental health and violence prevention.
Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Sally Spencer-Thomas is speaker, trainer and change agent for Sally Spencer-Thomas, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Sally Spencer-Thomas has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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